Events for January 2019

Ring in the revelry this New Year’s Eve in Murphy Arts’ District with a special performance by New Orleans’ Dirty Dozen Brass Band. MAD is offering two options for bringing in the new year with a blast. The first option is a dinner in the Griffin Restaurant along with a New Year’s party with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band in the adjacent First Financial Music Hall. Ticket holders will also be entered to win a diamond ring valued at 3,500 from Cole's Jewelers of El Dorado.

South Arkansas Administrative Professionals will have Veronica Creer as the guest speaker.

Free show!

Have you every wondered what is inside of a computer, toy or an old fan? Join us to learn about what is inside things we throw away and how we can recycle those components into jewelry or a work of art.

This month's show is a Legends Show featuring Josh Davis as Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Roy Orbison. Also on the show are Miller-Fite as the Judds, Rick Jones as Neil Diamond, April Sanders as Patsy Cline, Leslie Word as George Strait, Southern Koast as George Jones & Tammy Wynette, Steve Harrell as Vince Gill and BJ Kyle as Jerry Lee Lewis.


Also add Executive Dance to the January list of performers

The Boom Town Book Club is a public book club associated with the SouthArk Library, and all are welcome! Regular meetings are held on the third Monday of every month at 5:30 PM in the SouthArk Library. Everyone is encouraged to read books of their choosing for discussion at the meetings, and a "common" read will be chosen for reading and discussion by all members four times per year. Please get in touch with any questions, and we look forward to seeing you in the library!

When Old Man Winter brings the chill, you can bring with heat with soups & chowders. Come learn the difference between the two, and get great recipes from Instructor Cathy Harrell.

The El Dorado Lions Club meets on every 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month. The meeting is held at 6:00 p.m. at  Simmons Bank, 100 W. Grove Street in the Community Room on the second floor. This meeting is open to the public!

$1 from every Blizzard sold will be donated to the Pentecostals of ElDorado Youth Group.

Doors Open @ 7pm Show Starts @8pm (with an opener TBD) Ticket Pricing: EARLY BIRD PIT (2wk Sales) @ $25.00 - Sale starts Monday, November 26th at 10AM EARLY BIRD GA (2wk Sales) @ $15.00 - Sale starts Monday, November 26th at 10AM Advance PIT @ $30.00 Advance GA @ $20.00 Day of Show PIT @ $40.00 Day of Show GA @ $30.00 Frank Foster embodies musical independence at it’s highest level. He not only has taken the road less traveled, but the road almost never traveled. Acting as his own record label, management, booking agency and publishing company, he has managed to find success that some major label artist may never find. This rural Louisiana native and former oilfield man has taken his songs from the campfire to the coliseum seemingly overnight, all the while gaining a following of fans whose loyalty is unmatched. His musical journey started in 2011 with the release of his first album “Rowdy Reputation”. To follow that up, in the late summer of 2012, he released his second album “Red Wings and Six Strings”, which debuted on the Billboard Country Charts at #30. Each and every song from both of those albums have become nightly sing-a-longs at his shows. Foster’s third album, “Southern Soul”, was released in 2013 and debuted at #11 on the Billboard Country Charts confirming that his popularity was continuing to soar to new heights. His fourth album, “Rhythm and Whiskey”, was released in 2014 and debuted at #4 on the Billboard Country Charts solidifying him as a true power house in the industry. He followed that up with his fifth album, 2016’s “Boots On the Ground”, which gave him his second top 10 debuting album in as many years. It entered the Billboard Country Charts at #7. Later in 2016, he released his 6th album, “Good Country Music”, which debuted at #13 on the Billboard Country Charts. He’s a singer, a songwriter and his own boss. He refuses to let anyone water down his kind of country music. If he lives it, he writes it; if he writes it, he sings it; if he sings it, he believes it. Frank Foster…. a true original.

Free show!

Join is at the museum for a history lesson through the fun of this 1920s silent short, "Number Please?" starring Harold Lloyd and Mildred Davis. Popcorn and drinks will be served.

The Emerald Piano Quintet, which includes members of the South Arkansas Symphony, will come together for a special concert of chamber music for piano and strings in January. Chamber music has been described as the "music of friends" and these fine players are colleagues as well as friends! Featured will be violinists Kiril Laskarov and Diana Norwood, violist Borys Smolaga, Cellist Brett Andrews, and pianist Dean Pieskee. Unlike the other Symphony events this season, this incredible concert will be performed at First United Methodist Church in Magnolia, Arkansas.

$1 from every Blizzard sold will be donated to Boomtown Bengals.

Free show!

A free legal talk and lunch for seniors! Join Lisa Shoalmire of Ross & Shoalmire, Elder Law Firm, LLP as she discuss and answers questions about estate planning and the ways to protect your assets for the future in this informative session called "Save My House!" A free lunch will be provided by Kindred at Home. Venue sponsored by UAMS South Arkansas Center on Aging.

Aging Insight is a program to learn how to protect your assets, remain independent and reduce any family burden. No matter where you are in the process, this FREE lunch will educate, entertain and inspire you! Come on your lunch break and be inspired!

Come out and be a Hero and give the gift of life! We will be holding a LifeShare Blood Drive on the 25th for our local hospitals. Every donor will receive a t-shirt, snack and drink.

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Walk with a Doc is a walking program for everyone interested in taking steps for a healthier lifestyle. What better way to start your weekend than on your feet making strides to help your heart and improving your general health to live longer! While you walk at your own pace, you'll have the opportunity to have questions answered by local physicians. The last Saturday of every month, weather permitting.

Free show

El Dorado native Jim Edwards (Jim Ed Warbington class of 86) playing his Americana genre of music. Come listen and dance in a non smoking environment.

Driven to do what he loves, John King left a small mountain town in Georgia to write number 1 songs, tour across the US, and open for award-winning artists. Murphy Arts District (MAD) is pleased to announce that King will perform in the Griffin Restaurant on Saturday evening, January 26th, 2019 at 8:00 PM. Early Bird tickets are $15 until December 31st, $20 from January 1st through January 25th, and $30 on the day of the show. MAD members may purchase tickets starting Monday, December 17th. The general public may purchase tickets starting Tuesday, December 18th. In a short time, King has been making a name for himself in Country music. His debut radio single, “Tonight Tonight,” earned him his first Top 40 hit and was heard by millions of NFL fans and used to highlight CBS network’s Thursday night football throughout the 2014 season. As a songwriter King landed his first #1 song in 2016 with a song called “We Went” recorded by artist Randy Houser. King co-wrote the song with friends, Matt Rogers and Justin Wilson and received a 2016 ASCAP Songwriter Award for the song's success. King also had a hand in writing Craig Morgan’s current single, “I’ll Be Home Soon.” King continues touring countless dates building his fanbase and in late 2016, signed his first management deal with Narvel Blackstock and Starstruck Entertainment. Narvel has been instrumental in the rise of Superstars like Reba, Blake Shelton and Kelly Clarkson. In late 2017, King released the single "I Still Pick Up" from his latest project. The song debuted Top 5 on the Apple Music Hot Chart and has already gained over 1 million streams in a short time. The music video was recently voted Top 10 on the CMT countdown. John took serious interest in guitar when he realized he could figure out how to play his favorite songs, but then went on to modify them. “That’s when I realized that I could write my own music. I started by playing familiar melodies and turning them into funny songs with lyrics about my friends.” Once John settled into the position of lead singer, his voice began to change the sound of the band. “Our early bands were rock bands but my voice was country. I grew up country, I talked country, and I wrote country songs.” When it comes to the fans, the bar is set high according to John. “I love the way Garth treats his fans like royalty…I wanna be like that… If you’ve made a long career in country music, it’s because your fans love you.” As King puts it, “Entertaining a crowd, meeting the fans, hearing their stories, seeing them have the time of their lives…that is what God put me here to do…that’s my passion.”

With over 40,000 searches happening every second, how does your business get in front of the clients that need you? Google's search engine changes anywhere between 500 and 600 times every year, so how does a company stay on top of things? Join us for an in depth look at the challenges facing businesses in the digital world and what can be done to get ahead. So have your questions ready and bring a notepad!

Sean Fresh is a native of Little Rock and the son of a Pastor. Sean’s first singing experience was in church where his mom encouraged his beautiful voice and told him that one day he would use it to bring people to God. Sean was also exposed to a very wide scope of other types of music that influenced his artistry, from the likes of Brian McKnight, Babyface, 8 Ball and MJG, to Otis Redding, The Isley Brothers, OutKast, Sam Cooke and Fred Hammond. As a child Sean grew up in an area dominant in gang violence and he would use his faith and music to escape the threatening world around him. There were some self-admitted missteps in his life and, following a near-fatal car wreck in May 2006, Fresh decided to get serious about his singing feeling that was what the Lord was leading him to do. Now the singer, songwriter, entertainer uses his sultry voice to enlighten the world through his alluring melodies. Sean is backed by his band he calls “The Nasty Fresh Crew”. Sean is charming when crooning R&B and riveting as a Hip Hop artist. When asked about the motivation behind some of his more sociopolitical activist lyrics, Sean says, "Social injustice is just as real as the pen that I used to write those lyrics. I know that God continues to heighten our platform so that we can speak up for those that don't have a voice." Sean describes himself as Christian, Artist, Community Builder, R&B Singer, Songwriter, Fearless, Father. He says, “I have won several awards. I have toured in a lot of amazing places but nothing is more important than these.” He was recently voted best artist in Arkansas for two years in a row (The Idle Class) and his band (The NastyFresh Crew) was nominated for Best Soul Artist by the Arkansas Times.